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...That the Department of Labor be given authority "to improve working conditions" (as is commanded by law) besides it present function of investigating, reporting and recommending...
Political circles in Berlin predicted an era of political calm, but many are the thorns that will prick the new dictatorship when it begins to function. At all events the Government seems safe until the next general elections, which should take place next Summer...
When Ambassador Harvey appeared at a London court function clad in knee breeches and buckled shoes he was ridiculed in the United States for aping the undemocratic aristocracy of the Old World. Yet the right to a salute of nineteen guns, to ride in a coach and six, and to be honored as the dignity and power of his state would be honored, is not inconsistent with democracy. Indeed the American ambassador to St. James who in his simple evening dress was mistaken for a butler and commanded by a haughty European ambassador to "call my coach, sirrah!" would undoubtedly...
...control education but to promote it, should be the function of the national government. There is now no national supervision except for vocational and agricultural training. The rest is left to the states. But to leave the problem of education entirely to local communities has always proved a failure. That is why Horace Mann spent his life in fighting the district system in Massachusetts. Progress always results from enlarging the area from which support for education is drawn...
...entire freight rate structure of the country should be reorganized and that such action should be reorganized and that such action should be ordered at once by Congress. Such extensive revision of the entire rate structure will require an enormous amount of study and normally would be the function of the Interstate Commerce Commission...